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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942 (One Day Nearer Victo,
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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
The Mountaineer
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Looking Back
North Carolina a.i
'PUSS ASSOCIATION
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942
(One Day Nearer Victory)
Bonds For Presents
We are sure that the defense stamp and
the war bond will be included on most
Christmas lists this year. For the sake of
the safety of our nation we must make
these gifts a part of our Christmas spend
ing. In the Skyland Post recently we found
the following editorial, which is certainly
timely advice for Christmas 1942 and maybe
even more appropriate in 1943 :
"War bonds should be on everyone's
Christmas gift list this year.
"These green and white pieces of paper
representing money to be paid by the gov
ernment in ten years, may not provide the
excitement of big, tinseled packages, but
they can produce more long term satisfac
tion than the glamorous gift you could ask
for. .,
"Plenty of bonds under plenty of Christ
mas trees this year are the best insurance
there is to guarantee that we will have
Christmas trees and Christmas celebrations
in the years to come. The Christmas spirit
which makes the Christmas season so joyous
in this country would quickly die if we lost
the things we are fighting to preserve in
this war.
''Only so long as we can live as free men
and women, can we celebrate the 'peace on
earth, good will to men' theme which per
vades our nation at Christmas time.
"Of course the 'average person cannot
give everyone on his list a bond, but stamps
also make nice gifts and these should cer
tainly be considered when we are making
our purchases of other gifts this year.
"The finest Christmas card to send Hitler
would be a, war bond and a few stamps."
U. S. Employment
We doubt if the public in general realizes
the tremendous amount of work and the
actual services that are rendered by the
local U. S. Employment Service office.
Here those seeking jobs and employment
are introduced to those seeking employes.
The officials of busy industrial plants have
no time to hunt around for new workers,
and often those seeking jobs in the past did
not always know how to go about contacting
the proper source.
Now through this government agency
both the needs of the employer and the
potential labor facilities are brought together
in a way that gives service to both groups.
Chicken Feed
While we do not profess to be an authority
on either chickens or chicken feed, the mix
ture of grains with which R. E. Sentelle
has been experimenting this year appears
to have real merit.
If the full bunches of grain on the stalks
he brought into The Mountaineer office are
example of his crop, it would indicate that
the varieties he raised last year would offer
rewards to those who are hunting chicken
feed deluxe raised on their farm.
Of course the proof of the pudding is in
the eating, and according to Mr. Sentelle,
he has gotten a maximum egg production
with his new and fancy home grown mix
. ture. : - : ;
. Don't spend all you make, advises a Chi
cago banker. And a wisecrack comes along
with this, "some folks get it mixed and
don't make all they spend."
One year ago in December, 1941, our
country entered the Second World War. We
would not have believed this time last year
that our viewpoint could have undergone
such a change in twelve months. We are
living in a different country today.
We felt so secure a year ago. While we
knew if we listened to reason, that we would
be drawn into the great surging conflict at
some future date, when it came, we were
stunned with the shock of its reality.
We have begun to understand how de
pendent we are on distant countries. We
are not self sufficient in America, as most
of us had been thinking.
We once thought that money could buy
anything in America, but now that we are
cut off by the war from supplies that have
come from other nations, we face undream
ed shortages that are affecting our daily
lives. We are in the midst of daily changes.
In the land of plenty, as we have always
considered our country, we now find the
rationing of food and supplies a new ex
perience. What will another year bring?
It's Everywhere Now
Gasoline rationing was extended last week
to all America- It brought to mind a lot of
conversations we have heard since it was
first imposed on the Atlantic states. We
recall how last summer on every hand there
was resentment of the fact that citizens of
sister states could ride at will while we had
to conserve in this area.
There were two ways to look at the mat
ter. Had it not been for the neighboring
states that still enjoyed plenty of gasoline
we might not have had as good a season as
we did. This coming summer we may look
back and count our blessings of the year
before and wish that even if we could not
have gasoline Our neighbors could, for
through them we gained many visitors who
will be staying at home in 1943.
The effect on the different sections was
interesting to note. In Los Angeles, the
authorities instructed the citizens how to
ride a trolley car. In Texas it was, reported
that life-long Democrats, treading on each
others toes in buses, blamed the Adminis
tration and threatened to turn Republican.
In Chicago, work schedules were changed
to lighten the strain on transportation and
"suburban hot-dog stands closed their doors.
In Kansas City it was reported that last
minute rush swamped filling stations, and
apartment dwellers complained about the
smell of the gasoline that neighbors Were
hoarding in dish pans and lard buckets.
It must seem very strange to the Midwest
and the Pacific coast, source of two thirds
of the world's gasoline. But it is not for the
sake of the gasoline, but of the rubber that
the rationing is being done, so in that case
those who have gas in their own back yards,
so to speak, will have to take it as we have
done in the East.
The ruling theme of America today is
winning the war and if it takes such drastic
measures we will have to abide by them and
like it for the sake of the cause, and inci
dentally our own skins.
STAR BOARDER FROM NOW QK ''
" Shall Not Want"
"I often repeated the Psalm, 'The Lord is
my Shepherd ; I shall hot want'," wrote Vern
Haugland, Associated Press correspondent,
lost in New Guinea jungle for six weeks.
"I would be unable to go one step farther,
and then I would remember, 'I shall not
want,' and sure enough, there'd be some
berries or chewable grass or a creek with
good water just ahead."
Many a British or American lad is having
occasion to remember his early training
these days and to rely on the truths he was
taught at his mother's knee or by some con
secrated Sunday School teacher. This cour
ageous correspondent says he knows God
saved him. '
"Thou preparest a table before me in the
presence of mine enemies," runs the best
known of all the Psalms. Though it was
only berries and grass, yet "the table" was
sufficient to preserve Vera Haugland. And
did he remember, when he took off his socks
and gave them to a shoeless companion, '1
shall not want?" From The Christian Sci
ence Monitor. '
Every Month
The checkbook may not be exactly sublime
literature, but by golly it's the Book of the
Month right now. The Fort Wayne News
Sentinel. '
You don't have to investigate before you
invest when you're buying war bonds.
HERE and THERE
By
HILDA WAY GWYN
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TO
OUR HAYWOOD MEN IN THE
SERVICE . , - No matter where
vou are, overseas or still in the
U. S. A. we greet you . . . We
realize that before those of you
in foreign lands read this, Christ
mas will be something that happen
ed last year ... But even so, it
will serve as a message to you
from the folks back home .
FIRST, we want to tell you how
proud we Haywood county folks
are of the last one of you in uni
form ... and of your record . . .
The way you volunteered before
Pearl Harbor cast its gloom of
reality ; . ... so that it was months
before we had any quotas under
the draft, showed us early in the
game that you were willing to do
your part to keep the good old
way of living here in Haywod .
It makes no difference now, wheth
er you stampeded the recruiting
stations and beat the draft . . ,
Or you waited until your number
was called and you left under or
ders from the selective service
system, you have gone with your
heads up ... to make the" best
of things . . and answer the
call to arms and duty ... you are
all heroes to us back home.
Maybe a few of you considered
it a new adventure . . . but to most
of you it meant, for the time being
. ': . laying aside all your ambitions
and plans for the present and the
future . ;;. leaving home, your
family and your jobs . , . It wasn't
any easy thing to do . . . There
is uncertainty in life everywhere
. . . but on the battlefield . . .
i" the sky . . . and on the seas
in time of war . . . the man in
service invites danger as he keeps
his date with destiny ... it's a
tough job you have, fellows, any
way you take it . . . but forces
bigger than the individual have
taken you away from home.
We are doing our best to get
along without you , . , the ranks you
dropped out of to join a larger
company have been filled ... for
the time being ... that is the
way of life . . . but don't forget
you are missed . . . we speak of
you daily . . . the business firm
you left is proud of how hard it is
to get along since you are in the
service . . . (incidentally that
is one way that they have of brag
ging on you) . A man in the
service gives both a business and
a home prestige . . . and borrowed
glory.
The page in The Mountaineer
which gives the news of the men
in the service is a popular feature.
. . . If any of vou fellows think
you are not important to tho folks
back home . . . you should hear
our daily conversations . . . Why
wnat Johnny wrote from camn is
as big hews as the streamer on
tne morning paper giving the lat
est communiaue from the front. ' .
and when Bobby's address became
in care 01 tne Postmaster, New
York i: . . it was mighty serious
. . . and when Jimmv left camn
on the West Coast for parts un
known, the hews gets about some
how by the grapevine route, so
fast that it was almost stale by
the time The Mountaineer could
print it. . . . Of course trip Mamas
and Papas, with sons (and some
tew with daughters) and wives of
husbands can take the front row
seats in the conversation ... But
don't forget, that we folks "with
cousins and nephews give them a
close run for their money . -i
We bob up the first minute there
is a lull in the conversation, and
tell the latest from our boys .
and your friends are like you rela
tives.'" ';''
But take the Sweethearts, they
are the limit . . . They can't talk
about anything else . . . and when
they get that last letter saying,
"Don't worry, honey, if you fail
to hear from me for a while, I'm
just doing a little traveling at
the expense of Uncle Sam. I am
OK." . . . it's mighty hard for
them to take your advice . . . for
worry, they just will . . . Really,
boys, it has reached the stage
where the civilian who hasn't some
one in the service to talk about,
has an awfully poor time breaking
into the talk .". The way we
folks back home swap news about
you fellows is enough to make the
last one of you conceited, that is,
if you only knew the half of it.
And when they speak of that
unknown date when you'll be com
ing home again . if you could
see the look in their eyes . . .
it would bring a lump in your
throat . . . and put iron in your
soul , . . and "You'd praise the
Lord and pass the ammunition"
with more snap than any com
manding officer's orders could ever
get you to do.
Ramming Around
By W. CURTIS RUSS
Bits of this, that and the other
picked up here, there and yonder.
Voice
OF THE
People
Which of the articles rationed
do you find hardest to do without?
Graver C. Davis "I would say
that gasoline works the greatest
hardship on me, though I am hot
complaining."
Miss Mary Margaret Smith
"Gasoline, for it has slowed up
my work. It is impossible for
me to make the time I once did.
Tony Davis "Coffee, I guess
because it is my favorite drink.
I want it three times a day. '
Mrs. Walter Francis ''Coffee,
but doing without sugar is no hard
ship."
Wade McDaniels "I guess it is
going to be meat for I do like
to have my seasoning,"
Rev. William Baker "I would
say coffee, because I am not going
to drink as much of it as I for
merly have enjoyed."
Father V. J. Mahoneyr "The ra
tioning of manpower that has re
stricted my entering the service,
if you can call that rationing, has
affected me more than any other
restriction by the government.
The articles rationed have not
given me any worry."
Oder Burnett "I guess in the
long run it will be coffee."
Mrs. Jimmy Boyd "I am a lit
tle embassassed to say, but to be
perfectly honest it is sugar."
Miss Edna Hayes"! would say
coffee. The rationing of sugar
did not bother me, but coffee was
another matter."
We know that there is much
merit to the military training you
are receiving ... it makes you
think more quickly, it gives you
the ability to make decisions . . .
and no doubt the experience of dis
cipline will help you later in civil
ian life . . . we also know oh the
other hand, that you are attending
a hard school . . . the process of
working up to taking human life,
even in defense, is a trial to most
of you , . , but, of course, that
must make no difference as for
ward into battle you go, . . .
You are living in a world so
changed from that in which you
formerly reside . , . that often
when you are home on furlough
and leave . . . you get a wrong
impression . . . of the civilian . . .
you may be inclined to feel that be
cause he is going along pretty
much in the same old way, that
he is not affected sufficiently by the
war . . . don't fool yourself . .
often we are not half as cheerful
as we seem ... we sometimes smile
at you, when we would like to
weep over you (which we feel sure
you do not want us to do) .
and so we get misjudged i for
your sake the civilian must keep
things going ... there must be
a place for you to return to . . .
when the last gun is fired and the
last bomb is thrown ... you are
not the only Ones who have to
keep a steady nerve . . . but, re
member this, fellows .... . we feel
very humble, when we think of our
part in comparison with the sacri-
What Made
News Years
Afjb
TEN YEARS AGO
1932
Soco Gap road survey is approv
ed by highway officials Wednesday-
Citizens are urged to decorate
Christmas trees in yard for entry
into Woman's Club contest.
Improvements being made in the
county with federal relief funds.
; This paper entered its 46th year
last week.
License tags will be sold here
from the office of the sheriff.
Police here warn against shoot
ing fireworks.
Spirit of Christmas grips com
munity, stores are decorated more
than last year and the stocks are
larger.
Local woman wins $25,000 dam
age suit in Virginia courts.
Norine Lowe, Waynesville girl,
wins in state readers contest at
Chapel Hill.
FIVE YEARS AGO
"'. ' 1937 . :
Sunburst CCC camp to be de-
fices you are making.
We are going to do the best
we can to keep the old American
Christmas traditidtos this year . . .
but there is no use kidding our
selves . . . it is not going to be
the same without you . . . So hurry
up, fellows, and finish the job . . .
and come back home and help us
celebrate Christmas as we did be
fore the war . . . And good luck to
you wherever you are .". . on
Christmas Day.
The old home town
By STANLEY
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SaturHnv
business Havo tv,: e t,M y
had in many m;nthrraU
some lines it was the" be'st
history of rpvi c '
Atleast four firms t0 I
Ords for hitrh . us a
far beyond thrhes V;
summer. And al lthis
rationed merchandise 'fn
every line. r""
, For the most part, mpr,v !
have siihat;,, I1L ' merclll
.. " "reu "Lner eooA.
rationed merchandise, ,J
end, their velum v.,..m
fairly well. If business Mntf J
durin? thp , ... ntln1
mas business fnr iqjo .
ceedthat of last year, whi fh'J
keyhole. Cmm
One merchant isl7ughignp
sleeve at a woman whowent,
distance for a l.-
, " " '-cuain art J
When she got there, it was , ,
similar to nu Mn... t. 7.1
cupboard-the shelves were li
So back is W.t,no..:ii. , "1
and what o von mK.. i. 1
Yes, that's right. The veryThl
alia t.,J ...... ' l"l
""" ws right here y
Waynesville store all the time-J
nrf 1 ,-v . 1
Kf as sne bought
vi .
The editorial in The MoarJ
.11 iau. weex aDout the abuse
the court house and the surp
U1 wunwu juice in the halls
on the steps has brought a
of comment.
The windv dnva nf t, .
have played havoc with the fir
neeping me ironts of their sto
-i . . i
ciear 01 irasn.
One well known Wayiiesvl
man said he had never caret n,J
for coffee until it wa rnt;nn
now he wants three and four cj
a day.
That is the wav with a lot
people, they do not care for
thing until they are nVnrivM
it, and then listen to them holU
All this talk about beinir fi
people do we realize what I
means? Suppose it were tali
from us for an hour, a dav. or ei
a week. Most of us would hf
a clear conception of what it
meant, and would ect out and
more for the war effort, that cr
cize those irf charge.'
Our 5-year-old is all keyed
about Christmas, just like aj
child that age. Everything is A
tered around the occasion, and
time and plans must be made
conform with Christmas, as than
utmost in her mind.
Monday morning when the of
cial thermometer head eight
grees, Joe Liner carried his papi
as usual, and without a shivt
said he did not notice it was c
at all.
Have vou seen one of the nl
nickels? Or are you so flus
with money that you no ion
count 'em.
Miss Medford Draws
For College Edition
Miss Anna Medford was one
the illustrators for the Christnf
issue of "Coraddi" literary qui
terly just issued at the Womal
College of the University oi
Carolina. .
Miss Medford is the daughter
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Medfora,
Waynesville.
Dr. R. N. Garber to head J
luska summer school again
year. . ---::.. .
Rn Co k tt. Jr.. promoieu
F.orlo Spoilt, nt Court of Honor,
$4,895 paid in semi-annual P
i x il (orom and
ineiiLS mj mc dia -'
28 widows of veterans of the wj
Between the States.
FOTO,r re naid $14,000 mon
ly for fluid milk, and greater Pi
duction needed by the Pet P'f
hCTwo papers will be published
The Waynesville Mountaineer
ViiK isuiiaa cm. . .
Irnn rjnff township is the not
of a remarkable people. ,
Religious services are oems
Sunday afternoon for prisoners
camp in Hazel wood. ,.,
observe 50th wedding anmvers!
on the 20th.
The rrencnman -
looks of the dog barrmf 5 I
It 9 ail . " , . Itwn
,Wf vm, know the proei.
ingdogs never De ; . . m
"An yes, -
I know ze proverbe, you
proverbe; but zedog-
know ze proverbe?
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nire you. -"
lust now." . , rteifi
Boy (determmea. .
"Thats all ngni, -
be so much help.